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HPDC
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Reshaping text data for efficient processing on Amazon EC2
Text analysis tools are nowadays required to process increasingly large corpora which are often organized as small files (abstracts, news articles, etc). Cloud computing offers a ...
Gabriela Turcu, Ian T. Foster, Svetlozar Nestorov
HPDC
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Versioning for workflow evolution
Scientists working in eScience environments often use workflows to carry out their computations. Since the workflows evolve as the research itself evolves, these workflows can be ...
Eran Chinthaka Withana, Beth Plale, Roger S. Barga...
HPDC
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Improving the Hadoop map/reduce framework to support concurrent appends through the BlobSeer BLOB management system
Hadoop is a reference software framework supporting the Map/Reduce programming model. It relies on the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) as its primary storage system. Althoug...
Diana Moise, Gabriel Antoniu, Luc Bougé
HPDC
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Resource provisioning with budget constraints for adaptive applications in cloud environments
The recent emergence of clouds is making the vision of utility computing realizable, i.e. computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities su...
Qian Zhu, Gagan Agrawal
HPDC
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
AzureBlast: a case study of developing science applications on the cloud
Cloud computing has emerged as a new approach to large scale computing and is attracting a lot of attention from the scientific and research computing communities. Despite its gro...
Wei Lu, Jared Jackson, Roger S. Barga
HPDC
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
A data transfer framework for large-scale science experiments
Modern scientific experiments can generate hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes or even petabytes of data that may furthermore be maintained in large numbers of relatively small fil...
Wantao Liu, Brian Tieman, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Ian...
HPDC
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Fast and scalable simulation of volunteer computing systems using SimGrid
Advances in internetworking technology and the decreasing cost-performance ratio of commodity computing components have enabled Volunteer Computing (VC). VC platforms aggregate te...
Bruno Donassolo, Henri Casanova, Arnaud Legrand, P...
HPDC
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
BTWorld: towards observing the global BitTorrent file-sharing network
Today, the BitTorrent Peer-to-Peer file-sharing network is one of the largest Internet applications--it generates massive traffic volumes, it is deployed in thousands of independe...
Maciej Wojciechowski, Mihai Capotâ, Johan A....
HPDC
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Early observations on the performance of Windows Azure
A significant open issue in cloud computing is performance. Few, if any, cloud providers or technologies offer quantitative performance guarantees. Regardless of the potential adv...
Zach Hill, Jie Li, Ming Mao, Arkaitz Ruiz-Alvarez,...
HPDC
2010
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
GatorShare: a file system framework for high-throughput data management
Voluntary Computing systems or Desktop Grids (DGs) enable sharing of commodity computing resources across the globe and have gained tremendous popularity among scientific research...
Jiangyan Xu, Renato J. O. Figueiredo